The North Central Province of Ceylon is an arid plain where habitation is possible only with the help of an elaborate irrigation system. This 1961 book analyses how land was owned used and transmitted to later generations in one of these irrigation-based communities, the village of Pul Eliya.
the village of Pul Eliya. The main emphasis is placed on the way the ties of kinship and marriage are related to property rights and the practices of land use. The approach to this question provides a critical test of certain features of the theory and method of contemporary social anthropolo...
PUL ELIYA IN THE PORTUGUESE MOUNTAINS : A Comparative Essay on Kinship Practices and Family Ideology]]>First page of articledoi:10.1111/j.1467-9523.1987.tb00323.xBRIAN JUAN O'NEILLJohn Wiley & Sons, LtdSociologia Ruralis
PUL ELIYA IN THE PORTUGUESE MOUNTAINSIn 1961 the British anthropologist Edmund Leach published a series of highly polemical statements about family behavior and ideology. Here the author apply a number of Leach's theoretical conclusions about water, land and kinship in a comparative fashion to his ...